Happy New year!

I’ve totally dropped the ball on this whole blogging thing. I blame Craig Entirely for hording my computer and causing me to forget that I actually have a blog!
It has been pretty chaotic around our house the last few days.
Monday Morning we dragged the poor kids out of bed to take Craig to the Airport at 6:30 am. The kids were sad to see him go, but felt better knowing that he’d be back in less than a week.

When we got home

First we shoveled the grass....That's very important you know..then we ate snow........But not the yellow kind

Ewwwwwwww

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Ang came over with her girls and their New edition.
Meet Ruthie..

The cutest little puppy I’ve seen since Weston!
Mattie was in love with her (as were all the children)

He’d pet her repeating “nishe” over, and over again.

She still has baby sharp puppy teeth, and Mattie got a little overwhelmed when she tried to use his chubby little limbs as a teether.

But just look how cute his chub is! I want to nibble it too!

They stayed for most of the day which is usually how it goes.
Over 8 hours of kids running around screaming, playing, giggling and demanding food, watching movies like this one (without the Children of course), and at least half a dozen games of Zilch for Ang and I. It was Fabulous!
Taylor was going to take the girls with him to his Aunts house for their Annual New Years eve party, but got home too late after taking Trax home.

I’ve never been one to celebrate New Years, so I was happily asleep by 10:30. Ahhhh sleep!

Yesterday Taylor got called off from work so we spent the day running around with the kids. First, a little 75% off ‘After Christmas’ shopping at Target.

Its very unusual for Taylor and I to have a day off together. It only happens once or twice a month on a good month.. So it was really nice to run around with an extra set of hands.

(well until I had to DRAG him kicking and screaming out of the toy isle........ Yes, I'm serious)

Ali wanted to go Ice-skating so I dropped Taylor and the girls off at the Rec center while Mattie and I went grocery shopping. I came back an hour later to find them sitting in the doorway of the rec center eating a pile of treats from the vending machine. They had gone in and rented their skates only to find that Megan had not worn socks under her snow boots. Ali was thoughtful enough not to leave Meg on the sidelines and opted to go another time. (Occasionally they look after one another… In between the hours, days, and months of constant bickering), I felt bad that they didn’t get to go, but grateful that they seemed to have a good time munching on their junk food and bonding with Taylor for awhile.

In other news............
Mattie has taken over my MP3 Shuffle.

Every time I try to put it on, he comes running. He actually listens to it too. I stick the earplugs in his tiny little ears, and clip it to his jammies and off he runs. When an earplug falls out he hands it to me and leans his empty ear towards me. He's done this 3 times in the last two days! I think he’s going to be a rock star like his big sister.
(PS, don't mind the messy jammies.. I really do bathe him)

Today, I’m at work. The start of my Five in a row 12 hour shifts. Ugh… Craig will be here again this weekend, so I’ll try and blog a few more times while I’m here at work (shhh, don’t tell) because I am sure he’ll be hording my laptop.